[Chapter 342: So This Is How the Rubik’s Cube Is Used]
the Rubik’s Cube is used. Skyfire chose to scan Belfast because it was not only suitable for its own use, but also because it believed that this light cruiser was suitable for the current Winter City.
James Norrington and the naval soldiers he trained also came into contact with and became familiar with this World War II warship.
It can be said that if they were given a Belfast, they could skillfully start the ship and operate it for naval battles.
So it was actually a reasonable choice for James to choose this warship again.
“Will the firepower be insufficient…” As soon as he said this, he knew that he had asked a stupid question. Does Winter City lack firepower now? Not at all!
Whether it is the Decepticons or the Winter Knights, they can ensure sufficient firepower.
Including Hood, who can also provide firepower support. Although the ship equipment used by her humanoid warship is many times smaller than that of a real warship, the actual power is equivalent to that of the ‘original’ naval guns, or even better!
“After dinner, I’m going to take a look at the Winter River…”
“By the way, you don’t know yet? The military dock has been moved to a place further west.”
“…”
After being out for a while, David realized that there have been many changes in Winter City. I’m afraid he has to go around the city in person.
“It’s just right, I can also go around and see what changes Winter City has made during this period.”
Eva couldn’t get up from the bed, so there was no way to report to David one by one. Although Elias could do similar work, David thought it would be better to go around in person.
He didn’t want to be the kind of ruler who sat in the office all day and learned about his territory through reports.
Some things are described through words and language, which is far less intuitive than seeing the pictures with your own eyes.
“Come together, I can also be your guide!” Sophia’s greatest pleasure is to understand everything in Winter City. After living there for so long, she has already had enough understanding of all aspects of Winter City.
Especially her special identity and the current situation of living in Castle Glamorgan, so that many “secrets” in Winter City will not be hidden from her. It can be said that Sophia knows everything she should know, and she also knows a lot of things she shouldn’t know.
“Then let Sophia introduce the various changes in Winter City today!”
“Leave it to me.”
Sophia continued to eat. Perhaps thinking about the upcoming trip, Sophia ate much faster. Hood reminded her several times before she could barely maintain the elegant posture that a princess should have.
However, it was useless for her to eat faster, because she had to sit here and wait for David and Hood to finish breakfast before she could leave.
Fortunately, the two of them couldn’t bear to see Sophia swaying around like sitting on pins and needles. They quickly finished their breakfast in front of them and left Glamorgan Castle with Sophia.
David didn’t drive himself, but called a guard to drive the vehicle in Glamorgan Castle, taking him, Sophia and Hood to the new military dock.
When the car drove towards the bank of Winter River, then turned north along the newly built road on the river bank, and finally drove on the bridge that had just been built not long ago, David hadn’t reacted yet.
It was not until the car sped forward on the bridge and he looked through the window at the wide river just ‘below’ that he sighed: “The efficiency of the diggers is really too high.”
In addition to sighing, he wanted to increase the benefits of the diggers, but he didn’t know what kind of benefits he should increase after thinking about it?
Or give some rewards separately? But what rewards are still a headache for him?
Find a time to ask the diggers what they want!
Passing the long bridge to the other side, it looks much more desolate than the Winter City, but there are already several factories standing in this area.
“The industrial zone has also been established?”
This is the Winter City Industrial Zone that was originally designated. According to the plan, large factories will be built in this area. Among them, the more important military factories will be in relatively hidden areas. These factories on the surface are more for serving the people of Winter City.
“Yes, the basic framework has been built.”
In the future, as the various needs of Winter City increase, various factories will also be established here.
According to Sophia, the nobles from the capital of Tiran wanted to build a car factory to produce Winter City’s own cars.
Of course, the nobles wanted to manufacture cars, not because they thought it was a blank industry and wanted to seize the market in advance.
The nobles’ idea was simple, because Winter City was being built bigger and bigger and occupied more and more land, and travel gradually became a problem.
For civilians, they didn’t mind walking to their destination on foot, not to mention that Winter City had an increasingly improved public transportation system, and public buses were a favorite choice for everyone.
With the increase in population, Governor Weatherby Swan also ordered the transportation department to increase the number of public buses and develop more complete bus routes.
But the nobles were not willing to squeeze into public transportation with the civilians. As for the carriages they used to use, because Winter City lacked a sufficient number of horses, a small number of them stayed in the army, so the nobles couldn’t get enough horses to pull the carriages.
How can a noble of the Kingdom of Tiran not even have a car when going out?
Therefore, the nobles set their sights on Winter City’s specialty product: cars.
This vehicle that does not require horses or livestock to pull is very good, and judging from the fact that civilians can also take buses, Winter City has mature car manufacturing technology.
The problem now is how to get the technology and manufacture various vehicles for the nobles.
They don’t have to worry about the appearance of the vehicle. The various cars transformed by the “Autobots” among the Cybertronians are the perfect template.
Whether in appearance or function, they are all perfect. If the nobles want to make cars, they can just copy the Autobots.
“Is that so…”
Winter City’s cars do not use gasoline as fuel, but use crystal ore as a power source, which is definitely not suitable for making private cars.
If it were a while ago, David would definitely reject the nobles’ ideas without hesitation, but now it is different.
A lot of technology has been obtained from the Marvel Universe, including sufficiently advanced battery technology.
Replacing the crystal ore engine with a battery drive is technically not difficult at all.
“It seems that some factories can be handed over to these people to build.”
At that time, let the nobles pay to buy the corresponding technology from the Winter Alchemy Workshop and the lord, and then let them build the car factory.
In addition to the first payment, a part of each car will also be handed over to the Winter Alchemy Workshop and himself in the future. It can be regarded as a stable income channel for the alchemy workshop and himself.
What if the car factory built by the nobles cannot sell the cars produced? That is the nobles’ business and has nothing to do with David.
When this idea came up, David felt that not only automobile technology, but many technologies can be handed over to ordinary people to operate, and perhaps the commercial tax system of Winter City can be improved.
“Well… talk about this with Weatherby and Pierre later.”
When David thought about this, the car had arrived at the new military dock.
This is the westernmost area of Winter City at present, which is considered the western border of Winter City. There are large tracts of open space with only a few barracks and docks in the distance. From the size of the open space and the location of the barracks, David guessed that James Norrington was going to build this place into a naval base in Winter City.
Entering through the sentry at the door, David arrived at the dock at the same time as James Norrington arrived after receiving the news.
“My Lord Duke.”
“I heard that you moved a new warship. I came to see… Which one is it?”
There were two Thunderbolt speedboats and two Belfasts parked on the dock. One of them was transformed from Skyfire. At this time, they looked exactly the same. At first glance, it was difficult to tell which one was Skyfire and which one was an ordinary warship.
“This one.” James Norrington pointed to the warship on the left side in front. The Belfast transformed from Skyfire was located in the “further west” position and was the first line of defense of Winter City.
“Let’s go up and take a look.”
The Belfast light cruiser was moored on the Thames as a museum. It was a warship that was quite easy to find.
After being transported back to Winter City, James Norrington commanded his sailors to thoroughly clean and organize the Belfast, clearing out all the “unused” things in it and restoring it to the state of a warship.
“However, we still need to conduct a thorough inspection and testing of the internal facilities. It will probably take some time to fully restore its combat effectiveness.”
James Norrington was very excited when he boarded the battleship with the Lord.
When he was still in Royal Port a few years ago, even if he became a commodore of the Royal Navy, he never thought that one day he would be able to command such a “powerful” steel battleship.
Although there are still many problems to be solved, a bright future is beckoning to him. He believes that it won’t be long before he can return to the vast ocean.
Just as James Norrington was looking forward to a bright future of returning to the sea, David, who was standing on the front deck of the Belfast and stroking the main gun barrel, suddenly had an idea in his heart.
He didn’t think about where this idea came from, and directly took out the mind cube that had been put into the storage bracelet.
At this time, David was touching Belfast with one hand and holding the blue cube with the other. Then he clearly saw that the blue cube in his hand began to emit blue light, and slowly left David’s palm and floated in the air, emitting more and more dazzling light.
“Everyone, get off the boat immediately!”
Although James Norrington didn’t know what happened, he felt that his dream of sailing across the ocean again seemed to be postponed!
(End of this chapter)